[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civ 2 style happiness (PR#1436)

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> scripsit Per I. Mathisen:
> > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > > The current implementation of specialists is wrong. Civ 2 has
> > > specialists taken from content citizens. If there are no content
> > > citizens, unhappy citizens are used instead.
> > >
> > > The current Freeciv implementation is very buggy, in that unhappy
> > > citizens are considered first! This makes elvises not very useful,
> > > as the same amount of taxmen or scientists solve your happiness
> > > problems just as well.
> > 
> > Do people agree that this is a bug, and one that needs fixing now
> > before the release?
> 
> I won't presume to say when it ought to be done, since I'm not the one
> who will do the coding ;)

Presume away. Since I am the one who did do the coding, I fail to see how
a 3-5 line fix can take so much agonizing over. Bite the bullet Per.
Commmit it.

> However, regardless of how Civ2 does it, IMHO it is preferable to use
> the content citizens first, so as to increase the differentiation among
> specialists.  I noted this in the last game I played; it seemed strange
> to me to take rioters off the street, put them in lab coats, and send
> them off to cure cancer . . .

That is a very funny image ;-).

Aloha,
RK.

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